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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2013-08-08 00:44, Dave Sill wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Understand that no matter what you do, you can't be
sure that some bad guy isn't listening/intercepting/redirecting
anything/everything you do: you can only make it harder for them
to do that.<br>
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You can say that again. I am sitting in China right now, and
accessing my usual resources is a real cat-and-mouse game.<br>
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Still, one lesson from the talks over here: data mining methods are
really bad when there are are too few examples. That requires an
expensive human looking at the data in order to do the clever
generalization. So do things uniquely. <br>
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Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University
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